{"id":19180,"date":"2010-05-19T23:40:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T04:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19180"},"modified":"2010-05-19T23:40:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T04:40:04","slug":"bp-coast-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19180","title":{"rendered":"BP Coast Guard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a link off of FaceBook that makes a claim that the US Coast Guard is running interference for those that are trying to report on the BP spill and the oil that is being left on the Gulf. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/watch\/?id=6496749n\">&#8220;This is BP&#8217;s rules, it&#8217;s not ours,&#8221;<\/a>Except that there is more to the story. <\/p>\n<p>Because I was following this on my phone I could not watch the video and it had trouble going to a second link. So I was on the assumption that the reporters where trying to get too close to the original oil platform and the Coast Guard was preventing them from entering the area. But it seems that the Coast Guard was preventing the reports entry into a undetermined gulf coast location. Well maybe it was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/05\/19\/bp-coast-guard-officers-b_n_581779.html\">Coast Guard<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When CBS tried to film a beach with heavy oil on the shore in South Pass, Louisiana, a boat of <strong>BP contractors<\/strong>, and two Coast Guard officers, told them to turn around, or be arrested.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is BP&#8217;s rules, it&#8217;s not ours,&#8221; someone aboard the boat said. Coast Guard officials told CBS that they&#8217;re looking into it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><embed src='http:\/\/cnettv.cnet.com\/av\/video\/cbsnews\/atlantis2\/player-dest.swf' FlashVars='linkUrl=http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/watch\/?id=6496749n&#038;releaseURL=http:\/\/cnettv.cnet.com\/av\/video\/cbsnews\/atlantis2\/player-dest.swf&#038;videoId=50087799,50087866,50087865,50087864,50087863,50087861,50087860&#038;partner=news&#038;vert=News&#038;si=254&#038;autoPlayVid=false&#038;name=cbsPlayer&#038;allowScriptAccess=always&#038;wmode=transparent&#038;embedded=y&#038;scale=noscale&#038;rv=n&#038;salign=tl' allowFullScreen='true' width='425' height='324' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer'><\/embed><br \/><a href='http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com'>Watch CBS News Videos Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So the entire story that claims that the that the US Coast Guard is trying run interference for BP is based on the claim that two people on the boat were USCG Officers. Yep that&#8217;s it. We also know that people never lie about military or government service. <\/p>\n<p>But that is not stopping people from accepting that as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2010\/5\/19\/867962\/-This-is-BPs-rules-not-ours...\">gospel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThis is wrong in so many ways I hardly know where to start.  What happened to laws about free access to navigable waters?  Since when does BP get to arbitrarily impose LAW on free U.S. citizens?  Why are the Coast Guard, a branch of our Armed Forces taking orders from a FOREIGN company? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also considering that  BP made public a video of the underground <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3vVjJjyOlaE&#038;feature=related\">oil pipe break <\/a>almost a full week before this story came out. What did people think BP was trying to hide. I mean really. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a link off of FaceBook that makes a claim that the US Coast Guard &hellip; <a title=\"BP Coast Guard?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19180\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BP Coast Guard?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,6,84,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-fest","category-media","category-military-issues","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}